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The Lightness of the Dread

by Michael Timmons

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    Artwork by: Dorothy Johnston
    Record Design: Stuart McQuarrie, artl design, artl.design

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1.
Town Hall 03:50
Town Hall Carried her to sleep half of the week How he’s still standing is an engineering feat Cracked in every way, forge to replace Open up the arches, face the other way Face the other way Let’s face the other way Face the other way Word of the month, exhaustion of love How her steel folds, sideway looking tough Picture of the sea, a will to follow up This is her town hall, this is the camera club Face the other way Let’s face the other way, face the other way Let’s face the other way Blood through the wall, it’s hard to breathe Break through the bones, I’m underneath Into the wall, it’s hard to breathe Break through the bones, I’m underneath .. Break through my bones I’m underneath
2.
Empty Room 04:50
Empty Room Tell your brother I saw him Tell your brother I got it Tell your brother I knew him when he was at his best It’s all about the anger It’s all about the workers It’s all about the lovers, clawing each other’s chests Now you know I’m a liar Now you know I’m a liar Now you know I’m a liar, will you clothe me with the rest? Frozen up and dried, is the other side unbound? The lightness of the dread rests, the roles begin to set You can’t speak I can’t stand the sight of only seeing a brave face Let yourself through the back gate The fade you undergo Now you know I’m buyer An uncontrollable hire The empty room and the fire being risk assessed We would dance in the front room Frozen up and dried, is the other side unbound? The lightness of the dread rests, the roles begin to set You can’t speak
3.
Theatre 03:14
Theatre In our home in the top story The backroom light is always on We trip on the wired wall Remember we got that for nothing From the pair across hall Take me through your theatre And have you checked the electric meter Because I was thinking you should go The concrete showered above our heads Your bare neck on the 24th of plinth The storm door is forced shut Of all seven I’m the quiet one And I never caught your sun So take me through your theatre And have checked the electric meter Because I was thinking you should go
4.
Catch in Light Lens catching light, the flicker moves from left to right To the drawing pad, a portrait of a closing eye With dramatic force, open the emotion course And the rigid smoke seeping in under the doorway Would you believe this? Every fear was creeping in Every fear was creeping in When catch in light, fallen on the absent flight To a damage task, surreal end to chemicals With the Eastern coast, a sum of a team entwined Clip a neighbour’s side, onto the curb and through the night And the horror stones, stalking in when you’re alone Would you believe this? Every fear was creeping in Every fear was creeping in Every fear was creeping in
5.
Factory Tax 04:11
Factory Tax You’d race us back, another example of the fond under attack You could bore us so fast like we never wanted anything this bad Soon, near your own stacks, it’s in the windows, a factory being taxed So move over the ruin of a private father, the four boys gather Focus on stealing wire Focus on stealing wire While you’re here We’ll draw on the stats, turning amber with ourselves intact And we reach for the nineties driving after a sequence onto Spain And you see it all, in a twenty, a still, yet to be filmed So pass it here, the gentle confidence, the friendly arm on ear Move and make the most of a private father, the four boys gather Focus on stealing wire Focus on stealing wire While you’re here
6.
Crowds Below 04:17
Crowds Below Chimneys apart all in a row So many starts, it’s taking its toll Palms to the side, to the moonlit crowds below You swiftly turn On the mattress thin, I breathe you in On the mattress thin, I breathe you in If only I could leave the room, if only I If only I could leave Windows to the side so the smoke will rise The coal in my hands, the red mist glows I frighten myself but I’ll keep it in line You swiftly run On the mattress thin, I breathe you in On the mattress thin, I breathe you in If only I could leave the room, if only I If only I could leave I’m in the other room, I’m in the other room Been in the other room, I’m in the other room Was in the other room, I’m in the other room But I’ll be leaving soon, I’ll be leaving soon
7.
The Agonal 04:34
The Agonal You steam roll jack in the morning, you fed the line Your personal theatre alarm and the make-up kits The agonal You preach, the wooden slots, I was crushed to death You force the highest creepers and the midnight dance The agonal You never said No you never said No you never said it would last this long No you never said No you never said No you never said it would last this long
8.
Mercury Sills By the light and the mercury our minds within the pack And I left those two behind, the breeze against my back And I offer to the edge of sills, this states my last And as I talk, I see the wind screen begin to crack And it cracks, and I crack By the air from the underneath, we drown before the clock And we mist all our best parts, the worst still left in the stock I should’ve loved forgetting this, instead I missed the lot And a remoteness of a sweeping chest, the line begins to snap And it snaps, and I snap Now I return with kerosene, the keeper’s there When I returned you weren’t there No you weren’t there Now I return with kerosene, the keeper’s there When I returned you weren’t there You weren’t there When I returned you weren’t there You weren’t there When I return, you weren’t there.
9.
St. Andrews 04:42
St Andrews Was it bad? The way his head just cracked on the concrete ground in rain Was it fast? Look at me as you speak each and every word they said And relay The slow-motion TV display, each and every scene by scene Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off To the gaps Between the cobbles lapsed, let it move as stones connect To the lace Measured to be placed, the neon lights on the waist reflects Is this news? The paper-thin legs they just move, hold each other close like that Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off The clicking key, the station is seen Where the gown had been with a fraying seam And they all arrive and take their seats To watch the love so consciously be pulled apart And we keep our hands in-between Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off
10.
10 Days Before You Died When did you last me? 10 days before you died Did you ask for me? That would satisfy my mind I was rarely there When I should have been beside Now you torture me every second or third night Every second or third night At most arose I beat this pose I saw your ghost Are you proud of me? For moving all these words in sound Voice of a painkiller Like you taught me to the ground No, I was always there A heart’s been closed around Now I pine for sight every second or third night Every second or third night At most arose I beat this pose I saw your ghost Oh you erase it all Erase it all, erase it all
11.
Cardiac Arrest She was 21 when they started to run He was devoted to with a child-like adoring view, all new He lost the lighthouse key and was driven to his knees Oh you’re feeling so Oh you’re feeling sold It was cardiac arrest, they worked on his chest Then they all burst in with a blue tint to their skin He’s in the audience of her supermarket show He’s everywhere she goes and in everyone she knows Oh you’re feeling so Oh you’re feeling sold

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"exceptional songwriting...Timmons’ voice is the true star here; full of so much delicate and heartfelt emotion, it’s hard not to get lost in" - The Skinny

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released January 28, 2022

Written and performed by: Michael Timmons
Recorded and produced by: Andy Miller at Gargleblast Studios
Back-Seat Driver: Andy MacFarlane (The Twilight Sad)
Mastered by: Kenny MacLeod

Drums & percussion: Neil Woodside
Piano (Town Hall): Donna Maciocia
Cello: Susan Appelbe

Artwork by: Dorothy Johnston
Record Design: Stuart McQuarrie, artl design, artl.design

Supported by Creative Scotland, The National Lottery Fund

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Michael Timmons Glasgow, UK

"exceptional songwriting...full of so much delicate & heartfelt emotion, it’s hard not to get lost in" - The Skinny

"A man of some lovely words in song" Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

Michael Timmons is a songwriter from East Kilbride who creates beautiful fragile music, sustained by reverb laden finger-plucked electric guitar.

Contact: contact.michaeltimmons@gmail.com
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